Le dolci colline
Country Residence and Apartments in Umbria
How
to reach "Le dolci colline"
By airplane
Regional Umbrian Airport “S.Egidio”About 17 km from "Le dolci colline"”. Car rentals in the airport. Follow the directions towards Sant'Egidio, Ripa, Valfabbrica, Poggio San Dionisio Car, Bus or Shuttle available on request
By car
Autoroute A1 “del Sole”, coming from North. About 80 km from the “Le dolci colline", exit “Valdichiana”, take the connection A1-Perugia, E 45 towards Cesena, exit Ancona, ride across the towns of Pianello, Valfabbrica, Poggio San Dionisio.
Autoroute A1 “del Sole”, coming from South. About 114 km from the “Le dolci colline”, exit “Orte”, take the connection Orte-Terni, E 45 towards Cesena, exit Ancona, ride across the towns of Pianello, Valfabbrica, Poggio San Dionisio.
Autoroute “E-45” Orte –Ravenna E-45 It crosses the whole region, from S.Giustino to Terni. Exit “Ancona”, ride across Pianello, Valfabbrica, Poggio San Dionisio
Adriatic Autoroute A14 Coming from North: about 100 km from the “sweet hills”, exit “Ancona Nord - Falconara”, take E55 towards Jesi-Fabriano, and then Perugia
Coming from South: about 140 km from the “sweet hills”, exit “Civitanova Marche”, enter the Civitanova-Foligno road towards Foligno, then Perugia. Enter the E-45 road towards Cesena, exit Ancona ride across Pianello, Valfabbrica, Poggio San Dionisio
By train
For those who come from North Lines Florence-Terontola, - Passignano sul Trasimeno - Perugia_Ponte San Giovanni
For those who come from South Lines Roma - Terni - Orte - Foligno - Assisi - Ponte San Giovanni
For those who come from the Adriatic Coast Lines Ancona-Fossato di Vico - Foligno - Assisi - Ponte San Giovanni
By bus
Daily connections between Perugia and the most important Italian cities (Rome, Florence, Naples). Click on our reservation space
By airplane
Regional Umbrian Airport “S.Egidio”About 17 km from "Le dolci colline"”. Car rentals in the airport. Follow the directions towards Sant'Egidio, Ripa, Valfabbrica, Poggio San Dionisio Car, Bus or Shuttle available on request
By car
Autoroute A1 “del Sole”, coming from North. About 80 km from the “Le dolci colline", exit “Valdichiana”, take the connection A1-Perugia, E 45 towards Cesena, exit Ancona, ride across the towns of Pianello, Valfabbrica, Poggio San Dionisio.
Autoroute A1 “del Sole”, coming from South. About 114 km from the “Le dolci colline”, exit “Orte”, take the connection Orte-Terni, E 45 towards Cesena, exit Ancona, ride across the towns of Pianello, Valfabbrica, Poggio San Dionisio.
Autoroute “E-45” Orte –Ravenna E-45 It crosses the whole region, from S.Giustino to Terni. Exit “Ancona”, ride across Pianello, Valfabbrica, Poggio San Dionisio
Adriatic Autoroute A14 Coming from North: about 100 km from the “sweet hills”, exit “Ancona Nord - Falconara”, take E55 towards Jesi-Fabriano, and then Perugia
Coming from South: about 140 km from the “sweet hills”, exit “Civitanova Marche”, enter the Civitanova-Foligno road towards Foligno, then Perugia. Enter the E-45 road towards Cesena, exit Ancona ride across Pianello, Valfabbrica, Poggio San Dionisio
By train
For those who come from North Lines Florence-Terontola, - Passignano sul Trasimeno - Perugia_Ponte San Giovanni
For those who come from South Lines Roma - Terni - Orte - Foligno - Assisi - Ponte San Giovanni
For those who come from the Adriatic Coast Lines Ancona-Fossato di Vico - Foligno - Assisi - Ponte San Giovanni
By bus
Daily connections between Perugia and the most important Italian cities (Rome, Florence, Naples). Click on our reservation space
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Umbria
History
Umbria owes its name to the Umbriansd, an ancient Italic population which lived here and were defeated by the Etruscans. The Romans conquered the region in307 a.C., and Umbria became one of the most powerful areas in Central Italy
It included the land of the Casuentini (Casentino) and it was limited to the West from the Tevere between Tifernum (CIttà di Castello) and Otriculum (Otricoli), confined to East with the country of the Sabini, the Piceno and the Adriatic between the two rivers Aesis (Esino) and Rubicone, and was crossed by the consular way Flaminia.
After the end of the Roman Empire, its territory was limited between the rivers Tevere and Nera and the Appennins, forming the greater part of the Ducato di Spoleto. In the Middle Age it passed under various dominations (the Visconti, the King of Naples, Fortebraccio Braccio from Montone) and was the scenario for the fights among the most powerful families (Oddi and Baglioni); however in this period a remarkable attention was given to the arts, with schools of architecture, sculpture and painting, which left splendid momuments all through Umbria. Umbria was afterwards incorporated to the Papal State and followed its various fortune until 1860, when it was annexed to the newborn Italy. The Second World War invested the Umbria in the summer of 1944, but not many fights were fought here; in Terni and Foligno many buildings and monuments were bombed, together with the Airport of Sant'Egidio and many bridges of the Tiber near Perugia
Landscape
Umbria is mostly covered by hills and mountains: in the eastern side we find the Appennines of Umbria and Marches, culminating in Mount Vettore (2476 meters high), in the Sibillines Park, in whose central and northern side there are Mount Nerone and Mount Pennino with their well-irrigated and cultivated valleys. The above mentioned Appennines are interrupted by easy passages (Valico di Fossato – 740 m. – and Bocca Serriola – 730), which connect Umbria with Marches. The Centenaia Alpes finishes in Umbria and covers with its last extremities the area of the Trasimeno Lake. Umbria also includes a stripe of the Sabini Mounts between the rivers Nera and Tiber. There are also ancient hollows, anciently filled with lakes: in Terni, it is crossed by the Nera after the Velino’s confluence; in Foligno (the most important one), irrigated by the rivers Topino, Marroggia and Clitunno, which gather all in the Chiascio; in Spoleto; in the Trasimeno area the hollow is mostly occupied by the Lake itself. The weather is nearly continental. Umbria is crossed for 210 km by the river Tiber: it enters the region from the north, in Sansepolcro (Tuscany) and receives the waters of the Néstore, the Paglia, the Chiascio and the Nera. In Terni, the river Velino creates the Marmore Falls. Umbria is composed of two provinces, Perugia and Terni. Perugia is the region’s capital city.
Etnhography and Folklore
The traditional and popular forms and rituals are very numerous. They are mostly based on superstition, especially in the rural areas. One of the most famous is the “Tall Waxes Contest”, which takes place in Gubbio every year on May 15th; a well-known religious celebration is the “Forgiveness of Assisi”, (1-2 August). The musical festival “Umbria Jazz” is a world-famous festival for the top level of the musicians and its musicians. Find itineraries and suggestions in the ITINERARIES section
Dialects
They’re strickly connected with those of the area of Marches and Lazio, and they present some features (metaphonesis of the final Is and Us,m assimilation of ND and MB in NN and MM) which are typical of the Central-Southern part of Italy. Particular aspects are to be found in the transformation of the structures NG and MBJ in GN and the assimilation of LD in LL.
The dialects of the northern part of Umbria are influenced by those of the Emilia-Romagna , while the southern ones are more eterogeneous
Literature
Characteristic of the dialectal Umbrian literature is, in the XIIIth –XIVth centuries the lauda, original of the zone, is in its lyric and dramatic shape. We don’t have written dialectal of particular interest, at least until the last century, when it was above all an erudite activity. Of greater interest are the popular poetries which were preserved through the centuries in the campaigns; There were many of of profane style (in Monteluco area and love songs ), but also sacred and devoted to the chivalry life, with interesting local legends (Santa Spina, del Lago Trasimeno, del Tesoro di Annibale e della Cascata delle Marmore)
Music
In this region, tenaciously attacked to the traditions, the expressions of popular music are still abundant, but a great part of them was never collected in one organic and complete collection. The arguments, features from the daily life of these simple and frank population, depict both the strong religious feeling and the vent to songs of rustic joy: therefore, next to a great number of religious cantics in praise of the of the Holy Trinity and moral and sententious songs, funny and love lyrics and contrasts. Numerous are the metric shapes, where we find songs, dances, strambotti, lullabies, tongue-twisters and riddles.
Art
The Etruscan artistic production is very rich: the presence of Rome is found in Umbria in the remainders, remarkably conserved, of public buildings Spoleto above all, with the tempio, the theatre and the bridge of roman age, maintained a great part of the ancient tradition which was afterwards transformed in the paleocristiane architectures of the Basilica of Saint Salvatore and the small temple of Clitunno. Numerous are the traces of medioevale religious architecture, with remainders of fresco and mosaics; rich and widely diffused is also the Romanesque production much, which was later replaced or completed by gotic elements. During the 14th century, the first landlords’ palaces began to be built besides the sacred buildings . Interestingare also the sculptures in wood, but especially the painting that comes to assume extraordinary importance as a result of the fundamental fresco technique, introduced by the greater artists of the ' 200 and of the ' 300 as dispalyed in the Franciscan basilicas of Assisi. The infuence of these painters, Giotto and the Senesi above all, greatly conbtributed to the development of the Umbrian art at until to the beginning of the ' 400. The greater churches of Umbria conserve traces of the art of the local painters and those of the Tuscany neighbors: it’s enough to remember the Perugino and the Pinturicchio and the architects from the Lombardy and the Veneto; Important is the influence of the Fioravanti and, later, of the Laurana, Francisco di George and Bramante
The remarkable production of maiolica (Orvieto, Gubbio, Gualdo Tadino, but above all Deruta), with golden and glass manufacturing , embroidery and the wood carving are also worth mentioning
Umbria
History
Umbria owes its name to the Umbriansd, an ancient Italic population which lived here and were defeated by the Etruscans. The Romans conquered the region in307 a.C., and Umbria became one of the most powerful areas in Central Italy
It included the land of the Casuentini (Casentino) and it was limited to the West from the Tevere between Tifernum (CIttà di Castello) and Otriculum (Otricoli), confined to East with the country of the Sabini, the Piceno and the Adriatic between the two rivers Aesis (Esino) and Rubicone, and was crossed by the consular way Flaminia.
After the end of the Roman Empire, its territory was limited between the rivers Tevere and Nera and the Appennins, forming the greater part of the Ducato di Spoleto. In the Middle Age it passed under various dominations (the Visconti, the King of Naples, Fortebraccio Braccio from Montone) and was the scenario for the fights among the most powerful families (Oddi and Baglioni); however in this period a remarkable attention was given to the arts, with schools of architecture, sculpture and painting, which left splendid momuments all through Umbria. Umbria was afterwards incorporated to the Papal State and followed its various fortune until 1860, when it was annexed to the newborn Italy. The Second World War invested the Umbria in the summer of 1944, but not many fights were fought here; in Terni and Foligno many buildings and monuments were bombed, together with the Airport of Sant'Egidio and many bridges of the Tiber near Perugia
Landscape
Umbria is mostly covered by hills and mountains: in the eastern side we find the Appennines of Umbria and Marches, culminating in Mount Vettore (2476 meters high), in the Sibillines Park, in whose central and northern side there are Mount Nerone and Mount Pennino with their well-irrigated and cultivated valleys. The above mentioned Appennines are interrupted by easy passages (Valico di Fossato – 740 m. – and Bocca Serriola – 730), which connect Umbria with Marches. The Centenaia Alpes finishes in Umbria and covers with its last extremities the area of the Trasimeno Lake. Umbria also includes a stripe of the Sabini Mounts between the rivers Nera and Tiber. There are also ancient hollows, anciently filled with lakes: in Terni, it is crossed by the Nera after the Velino’s confluence; in Foligno (the most important one), irrigated by the rivers Topino, Marroggia and Clitunno, which gather all in the Chiascio; in Spoleto; in the Trasimeno area the hollow is mostly occupied by the Lake itself. The weather is nearly continental. Umbria is crossed for 210 km by the river Tiber: it enters the region from the north, in Sansepolcro (Tuscany) and receives the waters of the Néstore, the Paglia, the Chiascio and the Nera. In Terni, the river Velino creates the Marmore Falls. Umbria is composed of two provinces, Perugia and Terni. Perugia is the region’s capital city.
Etnhography and Folklore
The traditional and popular forms and rituals are very numerous. They are mostly based on superstition, especially in the rural areas. One of the most famous is the “Tall Waxes Contest”, which takes place in Gubbio every year on May 15th; a well-known religious celebration is the “Forgiveness of Assisi”, (1-2 August). The musical festival “Umbria Jazz” is a world-famous festival for the top level of the musicians and its musicians. Find itineraries and suggestions in the ITINERARIES section
Dialects
They’re strickly connected with those of the area of Marches and Lazio, and they present some features (metaphonesis of the final Is and Us,m assimilation of ND and MB in NN and MM) which are typical of the Central-Southern part of Italy. Particular aspects are to be found in the transformation of the structures NG and MBJ in GN and the assimilation of LD in LL.
The dialects of the northern part of Umbria are influenced by those of the Emilia-Romagna , while the southern ones are more eterogeneous
Literature
Characteristic of the dialectal Umbrian literature is, in the XIIIth –XIVth centuries the lauda, original of the zone, is in its lyric and dramatic shape. We don’t have written dialectal of particular interest, at least until the last century, when it was above all an erudite activity. Of greater interest are the popular poetries which were preserved through the centuries in the campaigns; There were many of of profane style (in Monteluco area and love songs ), but also sacred and devoted to the chivalry life, with interesting local legends (Santa Spina, del Lago Trasimeno, del Tesoro di Annibale e della Cascata delle Marmore)
Music
In this region, tenaciously attacked to the traditions, the expressions of popular music are still abundant, but a great part of them was never collected in one organic and complete collection. The arguments, features from the daily life of these simple and frank population, depict both the strong religious feeling and the vent to songs of rustic joy: therefore, next to a great number of religious cantics in praise of the of the Holy Trinity and moral and sententious songs, funny and love lyrics and contrasts. Numerous are the metric shapes, where we find songs, dances, strambotti, lullabies, tongue-twisters and riddles.
Art
The Etruscan artistic production is very rich: the presence of Rome is found in Umbria in the remainders, remarkably conserved, of public buildings Spoleto above all, with the tempio, the theatre and the bridge of roman age, maintained a great part of the ancient tradition which was afterwards transformed in the paleocristiane architectures of the Basilica of Saint Salvatore and the small temple of Clitunno. Numerous are the traces of medioevale religious architecture, with remainders of fresco and mosaics; rich and widely diffused is also the Romanesque production much, which was later replaced or completed by gotic elements. During the 14th century, the first landlords’ palaces began to be built besides the sacred buildings . Interestingare also the sculptures in wood, but especially the painting that comes to assume extraordinary importance as a result of the fundamental fresco technique, introduced by the greater artists of the ' 200 and of the ' 300 as dispalyed in the Franciscan basilicas of Assisi. The infuence of these painters, Giotto and the Senesi above all, greatly conbtributed to the development of the Umbrian art at until to the beginning of the ' 400. The greater churches of Umbria conserve traces of the art of the local painters and those of the Tuscany neighbors: it’s enough to remember the Perugino and the Pinturicchio and the architects from the Lombardy and the Veneto; Important is the influence of the Fioravanti and, later, of the Laurana, Francisco di George and Bramante
The remarkable production of maiolica (Orvieto, Gubbio, Gualdo Tadino, but above all Deruta), with golden and glass manufacturing , embroidery and the wood carving are also worth mentioning
LOGISTICS
BANKS
Unicredit - Via Roma, 100 - Valfabbrica - Phone:
075.901 117
Banca Toscana - Via Roma, 51 - Valfabbrica - Phone 075.902 90 01
Banca Popolare dell'Etruria e del Lazio - Via Roma, 5 - Casacastalda -
Phone 075.909 115
Open 8.20am - 1.20 pm / 2.30 - 3.30 pm except Saturdays, Sundays and
holidays
CHEMISTS
Farmacia Pagliacci - Via G. Mameli, 57 - Valfabbrica - Phone 075.901 158
Farmacia Minelli dr. Filippo - loc. Casacastalda - Phone 075.909 134
Open 9 am- 1 pm/ 4-8 pm, except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, where
the available ones are reported out of any chemist's or in the local
newspapers.
POST OFFICES
Ufficio Postale di Valfabbrica - Via Roma, 38 - Phone 075.901 01 27
Ufficio Postale di Casacastalda - Phone 075.909 054
Monday-Friday, open 8.10 am 1.25 pm. In the main cities: 8.10 am 6 pm
SHOPS
Open hours depending on the various town. Usually, they are 9am-1pm/4-8
pm, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays
EMERGENCIES ON THE STREETS: A.C.I.
tel. 116
EMERGENCY NET tel. 113
PUBLIC AMBULANCES tel. 118 or 075. 901 696
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